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...worker we'll call Stein. He eyed the package hungrily, as if it were a hot pizza walking by itself down the hall. "Anyone want to play football?" asked his sidekick, JT. The two of them followed the thing into my office, where I uncrated it. It was a VCR-size video-game console, black with a dollop of mint jelly. I attached it to my TV. My friends elbowed me aside and booted up NFL Fever...
...coworker, Andre Sadowski, an enticing blonde, have seen tactics that range across the desperation gamut during their three years working at the store: from a female Lampoon business comper offering herself for the price of an ad to two girls coming in with a porno tape stuck in their VCR. The store’s security camera catches Harvard women who regularly jog past the store’s window stopping to stick their noses to the glass, looking for these European stallions...
...VCR thinks it is doomed. It was a bad omen when I bought a DVD player, relegating the old VHS box to a lower shelf?but at least it was still used when I wanted to record E.R. or a football game. Things got worse last week when I unplugged it and moved it to the spare room, a dusty purgatory for appliances on their way out of the loop. Then I set up the gleaming new Panasonic DMR-E20 recordable DVD player, a device designed to kill off the VCR. Instead of using videotape, it burns the images directly...
...only reason why I wouldn't run out and buy the DMR-E20 just yet. The sticker price of $1,200 is a huge disincentive, not helped by the fact that rewritable discs cost about $25 apiece (single-burn discs go for $12). I'm bringing my trusty VCR out of exile. I hope it will forgive my brief flirtation...
DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE VCRs aren't exactly cutting edge these days, but Sonicblue--the company that pioneered the portable MP3 player--has come up with a new twist: commercial-free taping. The GoVideo Dual-Deck VCR ($249) comes with two separate recorders: put a blank tape in one, tape your show, and when it's over the Dual-Deck will make a second recording, this time automatically editing out the ads. Find out more at www.govideo.com...